{"id":129870,"date":"2025-12-26T05:07:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=129870"},"modified":"2025-12-26T05:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:50:07","slug":"it-happened-again-this-year-what-is-so-different-about-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=129870","title":{"rendered":"It Happened Again This Year \u2013 What Is So Different about Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevincarson.com\/2025\/12\/26\/it-happened-again-this-year-what-is-so-different-about-christmas\/\" title=\"It Happened Again This Year \u2013 What Is So Different about Christmas?\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post reflects on the noticeable kindness, generosity, and goodwill that surface each Christmas and asks why the season feels so different from the rest of the year. By observing cultural expressions of the Christmas spirit, Kevin Carson points readers back to Christ as its true source and offers practical ways believers can carry that spirit into everyday life through faith, relationships, generosity, kindness, and intentional encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/kevincarson.com\/2025\/12\/26\/it-happened-again-this-year-what-is-so-different-about-christmas\/\">It Happened Again This Year \u2013 What Is So Different about Christmas?<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/kevincarson.com\">KevinCarson.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post reflects on the noticeable kindness, generosity, and goodwill that surface each Christmas and asks why the season feels so different from the rest of the year. By observing cultural expressions of the Christmas spirit, Kevin Carson points readers back to Christ as its true source and offers practical ways believers can carry that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[1359,3322,1144,3345,935,1015,1264,1411],"class_list":["post-129870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kevin-carson","tag-celebration","tag-christmas-eve","tag-christmas-spirit","tag-day-after-christmas","tag-holidays","tag-jesus","tag-jesus-birth","tag-new-year","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/What-is-so-different-about-Christmas-12.26.25-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129874,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129870\/revisions\/129874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}